proprietarian
/pɹəˌpɹaɪ.əˈtɛɹi.ən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A proponent of proprietarianism, that is, of proprietary colonies and proprietary government in colonial America.
noun
A person who owns property (a proprietor) or believes in proprietarianism, that is, that property is an absolute right.
noun
A stickler for proprieties.
Example Sentences
- "The quakers and proprietarians together have little weight. New Jersey shows a noble ardor. Is there any thing in the air or soil of New York unfriendly to the spirit of liberty?"
- "When Richard Peters reported to Penn on 2 October that the proprietarians had lost the election, he did not mention Franklin's supposed betrayal of Allen, Hamilton, and Chew."
- "Although the proprietarians lost seats, the 1742 election opened a season of political détente between the warring factions. The governor finally got his lazaretto, and legislators even compromised on compensating Thomas Graeme, ..."
- "The poor have been classified as the proletarians and the rich as the proprietarians on the Chinese mainland. In the Communist view all proletarians are good men and all proprietarians are bad men."
- "This is because in the capitalist nations, most people are wealthy and are proprietarians; therefore, their social culture and social logic are established on the basis of the wealthy."
- "The conversazioni are of all sorts, from the conversazioni of the rigid proprietarians, where people sit down to a kind of hopeless whist, at a soldo the point, and say nothing, to the conversazioni of the demimonde where they say any thing."
Etymology
From proprietary + -an (or + -ian).
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /pɹəˌpɹaɪ.əˈtɛɹi.ən/
- British English: /pɹəˌpɹaɪ.əˈtɛəɹi.ən/